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CHAPTER SIX: THE SARASARIC

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Imagine that you are part of a tribe who has been following great herds and flocks of animals for as long as you can remember. Suddenly, you see a messenger from your aging chief who points to a great cliff face and proclaims that under order of your leader, you and your people are to move on top and settle the plateau above. How do you feel about giving up the way of your father and his father before him? What are the new advantages and disadvantages of becoming a settled people? Keep these questions in mind as you read the following chapter.

Of the myriad of groups of hunter gatherers, nomads and tribes, the Sarasaric (s-are-sas-ri-ick) are perhaps the most notable of them. They were a unique mix of hunter gathers and nomadic herders, the Hyden Boar being their animal of choice supplemented by a number of flocks of Ryzic Sheep. Between the boars and the sheep, the Sarasaric had plentiful amounts of meats, milk and tough hides along with seasonal amounts of wool. The unique diet of the Hyden Boar, consisting of mostly fungus and wild forest plants meant that the Sarasaric was never far from forests or wood lands; the Ryzic Sheep which they had picked up during their migration had to managed with what they had, a likely cause for their low population compared to the boars.

These animals would provide instrumental not only during the Sarasaric's time nomads but also once they would settle down possibly hundreds of generations after their enigmatic birth. However, it would not be until King Dahoris which they would settle down but even then it would have late in his life as the popular theory with historians say. The true task of leading not a tribe but a village would be left to his son, Trusis. As with his father, not much is known about the King Trusis the Settler other than he died much earlier than as modern tests have shown, likely due to a clash with neighboring towns or tribes.

What is known is the ideal terrain which Dahoris, and by extension Trusis, choice for the city was an ideal position, the Anolian Plateau. The Anolian Plateau was both large and resided overlooking a forested river and delta that lead into what was known to them at the time as the "Blue Horizon". With both accessibility to the sea as well as a source of water for crops upon their rich farm land, as well as the natural defenses of the landscape, one could say that it was the Sarasaric tribe's destiny to become great.

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[Shayd]

An Ode to the First Kings

Who in these realms today lays down
His life for lands more dear,
Than Trusis did so long ago
When nightmare foul came near?

Who knew what change the strangers brought
Who knew their dark intent?
Not our peaceful people, beaten down,
Not our maids, to ill purposes lent.

They came because our lands were rich
With such weapons we'd never seen.
Laying waste to our people and to our homes-
Our blood red on the grassy-green.

From the north they swept upon us,
Astride their thundering milk-white steeds.
Such mounts were unknown to King Trusis,
But he knew his people's needs.

He bid us flee, to keep us safe,
Far from axe and spear;
But we were followed as we fled-
Our massacre drew near.

Trusis stood bold 'gainst brutal foe
As his village was smashed and burned.
Whole families died before his eyes-
And still his foe he spurned.

The first blow, they say, took off his arm,
And death-oh, it was not swift-
The Riders took their time with him;
But his son, his heir, was left.

'Twas Talheim, then, who led us now;
Talheim who must see us survive.
He led us west, 'cross our ancient lands
In order to keep us alive.

The Riders, content with what they had gained,
Did not follow we few;
And Talheim became the King who would
Rebuild our lives anew.

We built ditches great and walls high,
And learned the cold ways of arms;
Thus 'twas Talheim the Protector, in the end,
Who did keep us from present harms.

A ballad that has passed down since ancient times, as familiar in seedy taverns as it is in the grandest of halls.

[SpookySquid]

Chapter 6, 1.2, The Antisamatorkus and other small tribes.

The Following is an excerpt from a play written by one of the early writer and philosopher: Trunipscus. Despite being a much better philosopher than playwright, Trunipscus creates so many plays that historians are often left with nothing but his writing, which is very difficult to translate, as their only reference. The play is titled "The Flight of the Antisamatorkus." It is written in a special style where, during dialogue, each sentence is double the length of the last. He is often criticized by Sarasaric for his extreme pacifism. His daughter, Glorialia, would write the popular "An Ode to the First Kings." She wrote this just months before her father's mysterious death.

This is written about a group of nomads (about a quarter of the original Sarasaric) that decide to continue travelling instead of joining the settlers.
Gregackamal: Frigidum! The woods! I see a pond!

Frigidum: I will go. Stay here my family and friends. Stay out in the open where it is safe, I'll return soon.

[Poor, beloved Frigidum became lost, and Gregackamal left to find him, only to find him dead in the woods, surrounded by a group of Antisamatorkus hunters]

Gregackamal: Alas! Poor Frigidum! You horrible, evil villains!

Hunter: We are sorry! We weep at this life lost! We thought he was a beast and we struck him with arrows.

Gregackamal: A beast, Frigidum was to you? A beast you are all to me and any sensible not-beast!

[Gregackamal returned to his group and half of the nomadic went back to Sarasaric to tell the settlers of the beloved Frigidum's violent death. These senseless hunters would pay for the his friend's death. Their dumb and lame steeds, or the "precious Antignis" would perish to the might of young warriors...]

The Antisamatorkus would eventually disappear after a conflict with the Sarasaric. Many historians agree this is because too many male members of the tribe died in skirmishes with the Sarasaric.